Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Records With Your First Name and Surname

 It's Saturday Night again - 

Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

1)  You were born and given a forename (first name and middle name(?)) and a surname on your birth certificate. What were they?

2)  How many persons are on the FamilySearch Family Tree (with an exact search for a birth name) with your first and, separately, your surname? Are there any other persons with your complete first-middle-surnames?

3)  How many matches do you have when you search the FamilySearch Historical Records  (with an exact search for a name) with your first name, and separately, with your surname?  Are there any other persons with your complete first-middle-surname?

4)  How many person are in the Public Ancestry Member Tree collection  (with an exact search for a name) with your first name and, separately, your surname? Are there any other persons with your complete first-middle-surname?

5)  How many person are in the Ancestry Historical Records Collections  (with an exact search for a name) with your first name and, separately, your surname? Are there any other persons with your complete first-middle-surname?

1). I’m not going to disclose my full name just because of privacy reasons, but I will give my first and middle name. My first and middle name is Lacie Madison.

2) On the FamilySearch Tree, the results for this one are slightly different. If I only select the exact box for the name field, I receive 712 results, but if I check exact for the birthdate range (I used the birth ranges Randy suggested) as well, I receive 615 results.  I received 32,549 results for my surname. The results for my first name and middle name, as well as my full name, were zero.

3) On the FamilySearch Historical Records —same thing — if I only select exact for the name field, but not for the birth date range, I get 23,474. But if I mark exact both for the name field and the birth date field, I get 16,497.

For my last name, I get 438,149 Results. For my full name, I get zero search results.

4) On Ancestry, my first name is in 2395 Ancestry Public Member trees. My surname is in 40,703 trees. There is only one person with my first and last name, but my last name is spelled differently by one letter, even when selecting exact settings. No one has my full name.

5) On Ancestry Historical Records Collections, there are 71,445 results for my first name. My last name has 905,288. Even with selecting the search exact, it says three people put the spellings off. And there’s no results for my full name.

I actually liked doing this assignment— it’s been a while since I’ve done one.